The community leadership handbook
Subtitle: framing ideas, building relationships, and mobilizing resources
By: by James F. Krile ; with Gordon Curphy and Duane R. Lund.
Contributors: Curphy, Gordon J.; Lund, Duane R. 1926-
Edition: 1st printing, February 2006.
Publisher: Fieldstone Alliance
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Saint Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780940069541
Subjects: Community leadership.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: getting the most from this book; title: Insights from the blandin community leadership program; title: Community leadership comes with a job description; title: Community leadership is not rocket science!; title: What youll find in this book; title: Who can use this book; title: How to use this book; title: Three core competencies for community leadership; title: Framing ideas; title: How influences what; title: Framing is complex; title: Framing creates focus; title: Building and using social capital; title: Community action takes place through human relationships; title: Social capital flows through networks; title: Social capital comes in two forms; title: Mobilizing resources; title: Move others to speak and act in support of the goals; title: Engage people who have access to key networks; title: Directly involve large numbers of people throughout the community; title: Remember the different points at which people adopt new ideas; title: Combining the competencies; title: Social capital helps people manage differences in framing; title: Framing can increase or decrease social capital; title: Effective framing makes it easier to mobilize resources; title: Social capital is required to mobilize resources; title: Mobilizing resources can increase or decrease social capital; title: Solve problems by looking at how competencies combine; title: Use tools to practice the competencies; title: Tools for framing ideas; title: Tool 1. Identifying community assets; title: About this tool; title: Step 1. Clarify why you want asset information; title: Step 2. Create initial lists of assets; title: Step 3. Decide how to collect more detailed asset information; title: Step 4. Design your asset inventory and use it; title: Step 5. Map the assets you discovered; title: Step 6. Put your asset map to use; title: Tool 2. Analyzing community problems; title: About this tool; title: Step 1. State the problem as you see it now; title: Step 2. Describe why this is a problem; title: Step 3. Describe the causes and consequences of the problem; title: Step 4. Describe who is involved; title: Step 5. Identify information that you are missing; title: Step 6. Define the problem in one sentence; title: Step 7. Define the problem in manageable terms; title: Tool 3. Accessing community data; title: About this tool; title: Step 1. Decide what you're looking for; title: Step 2. Start locally; title: Step 3. Expand your search; title: Step 4. Determine what the data means; title: Follow up on your research; title: Tool 4. Doing appreciative inquiry; title: About this tool; title: Step 1. Conduct individual analysis; title: Step 2. Conduct two-person interviews; title: Step 3. Hold small group discussions; title: Step 4. Hold a large group discussion; title: Step 5. Choose how to follow up; title: Step 6. Experiment with an alternate form of appreciative inquiry; title: Tool 5. Visioning; title: About this tool; title: Step 1. Identify a coordinating individual or agency; title: Step 2. Form the steering committee; title: Step 3. Extend the invitations; title: Step 4. Hold a meeting to create the vision; title: Step 5. Draft the vi.